Maximum Security News

George Hyatte's attempt to withdraw the guilty plea that assures him a life sentence without the possibility of parole was unsuccessful.

Idaho Department of Correction officials said Tuesday that an inmate has been convicted of raping another inmate inside the prison.

Convicted double murderer and avowed white supremacist Billy Joe Johnson got what he wanted today when he was sentenced for the 2002 retaliation murder of a former gang colleague: Death Row.

A Shreveport pool contractor is accused of cashing checks from three customers without paying the subcontractors he hired to install the customers' pools.

Thursday, Nov 19, 2009 * Rep. Jim Sacia represents Thomson, Illinois. Sacia pens a regular column for newspapers in his district, but I thought you might like to read his latest work, which, of course, is about the proposed sale of the Thomson state prison to the feds At the request of Governor Quinn, I, along with Senator Bivins, arrived at ...

Roughly 500 convicts at maximum-security Millhaven Institution remain locked in their cells after a disturbance that prompted a sweep of the prison for weapons.

A significant number of the remaining 215 inmates of Guantanamo Bay could be transferred to a maximum-security prison in rural Illinois , according to a source in President Barack Obama 's administration.

Some folks in this dying Mississippi River town would rather take their chances with suspected terrorists in their backyard than watch their neighbors continue to move away in despair over the lack of jobs.

If the U.S. prison in Guantanamo Bay closes, nearly half the inmates could be on their way to a new, but barely used maximum security prison in northern Illinois.

The facility sits on a 37-acre site, with 32 acres being enclosed by fencing. Pontiac Correctional Center houses the following offenders: segregation, condemned protective custody, mental health, administrative detention reintegration management and medium security.

A White House official says the Obama administration is considering buying a northwestern Illinois prison to house a limited number of detainees from Guantanamo Bay, along with federal inmates.The official says the federal Bureau of Prisons evaluated several state and federal facilities and the maximum-security Thomson Correctional Facility emerged ...

Twenty-one cows suspected of being illegally sold by a man who lives near the pasture where they were kept were returned to their rightful owner Friday, according to Erin Habich, a Bossier sheriff's office spokeswoman.

White supremacist gang hitman Billy Joe Johnson got what he asked for from the Orange County, Calif., jury that convicted him of first-degree murder in October: a death sentence.

The LA Times reports that death row inmates in California have better living conditions and more privileges that those doing life in the state's maximum security prisons.

The title of this post is the headline of this new NPR entry , which is itself a follow-up to this important new Los Angeles Times article discussing life on California's death row.

FEARS of crime have forced Housing to hire a private security firm to patrol the Grand Bouet estate.

You've probably heard of prison inmates making license plates. But at Indiana State Prison, they're making something different -- very different.

Published: Saturday, November 7, 2009 at 1:00 a.m. Last Modified: Friday, November 6, 2009 at 10:12 p.m. Locked up in "the most filthy and unsafe conditions" alongside Sri Lankan "murderers and heroin dealers," former Sarasota hostess Marian Morgan still manages to keep up with her correspondence.

"Souza Baranowski is a nightmare. It's a powder keg," said Leslie Walker, executive director of Massachusetts Correctional Legal Services.

The same day a Chicago Sun-Times story hit the streets saying Cook County Jail doors don't work, inmates broke free from their cells and stabbed a rival gang member, authorities said Thursday.